Pages

Sunday, December 26, 2010

A hand-picked zipper

The pictures are a little blurry since they're from the ipod. My mom helped me finish my lingering purple dress from November and rip out the zipper on my red velvet dress and re-do it. Although, after doing it again on the machine, it still was lumpy and noticeable. So Mom helped me with hand sewing the hem on the puple dress and I finally tried a hand picked zipper.

I thought doing a zipper by hand would be a gigantic PITA, but it turned out to be a piece of cake. You only need to know how to do a pick stitch. I guess I'm a convert; it looks great!!!
It gives you big stitches on the inside, but the zipper is totally secure! Wow!
There's lots of tutorials around for learning this technique- I used the one from Threads here.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas- I'm having a great time in Oregon with my family!

6 comments:

  1. Sounds like a good plan to me. I hate my zipper foot - it always wrecks that last row of stitching. This could be the way to go. Cherrie

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hand insertion works well - I did it on the baby's velvet dress for Christmas as well as my size zip.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Merry Christmas! Miss you!
    -Andrew

    ReplyDelete
  4. So many wonderful dresseswedding dress australia waiting for your option,afterpay wedding dress do you want to be a beautiful lady?please choose us,bridesmaid dresses adelaideyou will love these dresses in our website.cheap wedding dresses australia

    ReplyDelete
  5. So many wonderful dresseswedding dress australia waiting for your option,afterpay wedding dress do you want to be a beautiful lady?please choose us,bridesmaid dresses adelaideyou will love these dresses in our website.cheap wedding dresses australia

    ReplyDelete
  6. brautjungfernkleider gelb knielang
    günstige partykleider
    jadegows hamburg adresse
    Möchten Sie viele schöne billige und feine Kleider besuchen.Möchten Sie viele schöne billige und feine Kleider besuchen.

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for your thoughts and feedback!